Anteophthalmosuchus

Anteophthalmosuchus is an extinct genus of goniopholidid neosuchian from the Early Cretaceous of southern England, eastern Spain, and western Belgium. It measured around 3.5–4 m (11–13 ft) in length, and had a skull length of about 60 cm (24 in).

Anteophthalmosuchus

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GoniopholididaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Pseudosuchia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
marinePBDB, for Mesoeucrocodylia

Time the record covers

At least 8.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 113.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 132.6 Mya to 110.1 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 10 of 10 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous133–132 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences132–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132–131 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences131–130 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences130–129 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences129–128 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences128–128 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences128–127 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences127–126 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences126–125 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 1 occurrence124–124 Mya — about 1 occurrence124–123 Mya — about 1 occurrence123–122 Mya — about 1 occurrence122–121 Mya — about 1 occurrence121–121 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences121–120 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences113–112 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences112–111 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences111–110 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences110–110 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences121.4 Mya113.2 Mya133.1 Mya109.6 Mya

10 occurrences of Anteophthalmosuchus on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

10 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

5 formations

Wessex — 50.67°N, 1.51°WWessex — 50.65°N, 1.46°WSainte-Barbe Clays — 50.48°N, 3.65°EEscucha — 41.02°N, 0.57°WEscucha — 40.32°N, 0.96°WVectis — 50.61°N, 1.36°WPapo Seco — 38.41°N, 9.22°W

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The named rock units Anteophthalmosuchus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Anteophthalmosuchus and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Anteophthalmosuchus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

85 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Anteophthalmosuchus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

7 references

Each of the 10 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Anteophthalmosuchus

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Anteophthalmosuchus was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itGoniopholididae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Salisbury and Naish 2011